Greg Jacob testified in John Eastman disbarment proceedings.
Greg Jacob testifies in Washington on Thursday, June 16, 2022. Jacob, who was counsel to former Vice President Mike Pence, testified on Wednesday during the second day of attorney John Eastman's disciplinary hearing before the California State Bar. | Susan Walsh/AP PhotoMoments before a pro-Trump mob would smash its way through a Capitol window, Greg Jacob was a few yards away at a self-serve coffee shop in the building’s Senate wing.
There was a “large, loud ‘boom boom boom,’” Jacob recalled. “Suddenly the glass just shattered. The window was probably about 35 or 40 feet from where we were.” Jacob has described the coffee run before — but on Wednesday he revealed that it came in the midst of drafting an email that would arrive in Eastman’s inbox at 2:14 pm on Jan. 6, 2021, one minute after Proud Boys member Dominic Pezzola breached the building. He had completed most of it when he heard the crash and sprinted — along with Pence’s military aide who carries his nuclear football — back to the Senate chamber.
Pence’s decision came two days before anyone in his orbit actually met Eastman, who first spoke with Jacob on Jan. 4, 2021, and pushed Pence to seek a delay in the electoral vote-counting session in order to give states time to reconsider the outcome of the election. Eastman would make multiple attempts to convince Jacob to persuade Pence to reverse course, but Jacob and Pence continued to reject the notion that Pence could legally assert any authority over the election results.
Jacob also said he agreed with some of Eastman’s concerns about election “irregularities,” suggesting he and Pence were both sympathetic to concerns that Covid-era changes to election procedures in a handful of states had improperly tilted the playing field toward Democrats. But he said none of those irregularities would have altered the ultimate outcome of the presidential election, even if one or two more states had ended up in Trump’s column.
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